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Webster 1913 Edition
Hunting
Hunt′ing
,Noun.
The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
A. Smith.
Happy hunting grounds
, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting.
Tylor.
– Hunting box
. Same As
– Hunting lodge
(below). Hunting cat
(Zool.)
, the cheetah.
– Hunting cog
(Mach.)
, a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth.
– Hunting dog
(Zool.)
, the hyena dog.
– Hunting ground
, a region or district abounding in game; esp. (
– pl.
), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. Hunting horn
, – Hunting leopard
(Zool.)
, the cheetah.
– Hunting lodge
, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting.
– Hunting seat
, a hunting lodge.
Gray.
– Hunting shirt
, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather.
– Hunting spider
(Zool.)
, a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider.
– Hunting watch
. See
Hunter
, 6.Webster 1828 Edition
Hunting
HUNT'ING
,ppr.
HUNT'ING
,Noun.
1.
A pursuit; a seeking.Definition 2024
hunting
hunting
English
Noun
hunting (countable and uncountable, plural huntings)
- Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
- 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica
- His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
- 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica
- Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
- (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
Translations
chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food
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looking for something
fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing
Verb
hunting
- present participle of hunt
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess:
- Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
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Derived terms
- asteroid-hunting
- job-hunting
- house-hunting
